GUAM
Guam Daily Post
Jacqueline Perry Guzman | Post News Staff
At a press conference held yesterday morning at the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica in Hagåtña, the delegate to the apostolic administrator Rev. Jeff San Nicolas announced that Monsignor James Benavente had been cleared of the allegations against him regarding irregularities and “financial mismanagement.”
Benavente has been assigned as parochial vicar of St. Anthony Church in Tamuning.
San Nicolas read from a letter written by Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, the apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Agana.
The letter stated, “Having examined all the documents and reports made available to me, I hereby declare that Msgr. Benavente’s response is found both credible and satisfactory and that none of these alleged major irregularities should be held valid.”
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